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ELEBBITIES.
BY
OLIVERHERFORD.
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AN ALPHABETOF CELEBRITIES
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iAN ALPHABETOF CELEBRITIES
Oliver Herford
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COPYRIGHT J899 BYSMALL, MAYNARD & COMPANY
(INCORPORATED)ENTERED AT STATIONERS' HALL
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THE HEINTZEMANN PRESSBOSTON U.S.A.
SECOND COPY.
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An Alphabet
of Celebrities
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'S Albert Edward,
well meaning but
flighty,
Who invited King Arthur,
the blameless and
mighty,
To meet Alcibiades and
Aphrodite*
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IS for Bernhardt,
who fails to
awaken
Much feeling in Bismarck^
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Bacon«
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IS Columbust who
tries
to explain
How to balance an egg—to the utter disdain
Of Confucius, Carlyle,
Cleopatra, and Cain*
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^^^^^^^'S for DiogeneSt
Darwin,
and DantCt
Who delight in the dance
Of a Darling
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IS for Franklin,
'^ who fearfully
shocks
The feelings of Fenelon,
Faber, and Fox*
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IS Godiva, whose
great bareback
feat
She kindly but firmly de-
clines to repeat,
Though Gounod and
Goldsmith implore
and entreat*
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IS for Handel,
who pours
out his soul
Through the bagpipes to
Howells and Homer,
who roll
On the floor in an ecstasy
past all controL
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^ IS for Ibsen,
reciting
A ^ a play
While Irving and
Ingersoll
hasten away*
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who only says
^^Pish!'^
To Jonah, who tells him
his tale
of a fish*
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IS the Kaiser,
who kindly-
repeats
Some original verses to
Kipling and
Keats*
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IS Lafontaine,
who finds he's
unable
To interest Luther and
Lis^t in his fable,
While Loie continues
to dance on the table*
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IS Macduff,
who's prevailed
J^ upon Milton
And Montaigne and
Manon to each try
a kilt on^
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^ IS Napoleon,
shrouded
in gloom,
With Nero, Narcissus,
and Nordau, to whom
He^s explaining the
manual of arms with
a broom^
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IS for Oliver^
casting
aspersion
On Omar, that awfully
dissolute Persian,
Though secretly longing
to join the diversion*
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IS for Peter^ who
hollers
-No! No!^^
Through the keyhole to
Paine, Paderewski,
and Poe*
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IS the Queen,
so noble
and free—
For further particulars look
under V,
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playing that
old thing in F
To RoUo and Rembrandt,
who wish
they were deaf*
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IS for Swinburne^
whot seeking the
true, the good^ and
the beautiful, visits the Zoo,
Where he chances on Sap-
pho and Mr* Sardou,
And Socrates, all with the
same end in view*
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IS for Talleyrand
toasting
Miss Truth,
By the side of her well,
in a glass of vermouth,
And presenting Mark
Twain as the friend
of his youths
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IS for Undine,
pursuing
Ulysses
And Umberto, who flee
her damp, death-
dealing kisses«
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For further particulars look
under ^.S
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^S Wagner, who
sang and played
lots for Washing-
ton^WesIey, andgood Doctor
Watts* His prurient plots
pained Wesley and Watts,
But Washington said he
^^ enjoyed them in spots/'
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IS Xantippe,
who's having
her say.
And frightening the
army of Xerxes
away*
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IS for Young,
the great
Mormon saint,
Who thinks little YumYum and Yvette so
quaint,
He has to be instantly
held in restraint*
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IS for Zola,
presenting
La Terre
To Zenobia the brave
and Zuleika the fair.
Whose blushes they
artfully conceal with
their hair*
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This Alphabet of Celebrities
written & pictured by Oliver
Herford with a border & initial
letters by Bertram Grosvenor
Goodhue and end papers &cover design by E. B. Bird is
printed for Small Maynard &Company at the Heintzemann
Press in Boston U. S. A. in
the month of November
MDCCCXCIX
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